Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Is your kid indecisive about what he wants to be when he grows up? Instead of concentrating on just one dream, encourage him to explore the possibilities.

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.